The Growtopia teaser is here! We also finally have a fully functional (well, good enough) website at growtopiagame.com. The game is still in beta and is set to be officially released on January 11th on Android, iOS, and webOS. But you can play it right now on Android in a very fun beta format. The link is on the website. This game is... really unique! It should appeal to the Dr. Lunatic crowd, because it's just a whole lot of random stuff and you can build it however you want. We've got a ton more crazy ideas to throw in there, so keep an eye on it as it continues to update and expand.

Boy, I'm gonna be doing a "End of the year" post sometime soon, and talk all about where Hamumu is and where it's (hopefully?) going. But for now, let me just quickly dash out some info on quick fun things going on right about now:

This Friday begins another Blackberry Port-A-Thon. I kinda ran out of things to port after the last one, but I'm thinking since a couple of the games I ported (which were accepted!) were Pirate Kart games I made in 2 hours, I can "port" games I haven't made yet! It'll be another fun round of cranking out mini games. I don't actually know how that will go, but isn't life always an adventure?

What's that you say? There's something more important you should be spending your time on this weekend? Why it's Ludum Dare 25, also starting this Friday! Join in and make a game based on [THEME]! Why, [THEME] is the most interesting topic of all. I like every game about [THEME]. You could also vote on the themes, but make sure you vote for [THEME], it's got to win!!

And not at all this Friday, 2013 kicks off with a bang (and continues to bang and/or kick at a steady pace) thanks to One Game A Month, a really really self-explanatory indie game development commitment. I've signed up. I haven't really considered if it's something I'm going to try to do, I just didn't want to miss out on the early adopter XP. XP is always good to have.

On a final note: Growtopia now includes a complete Santa outfit, and the Sack O' Joy is the first clothing item in the game to possess special powers.

It's along the lines of Minecraft - you have a world full of other players, and you chop it up to make new stuff of your own (with no real goals, just build and socialize and enjoy). However, instead of crafting things, everything grows on trees! You create new stuff by splicing together seeds of other stuff, plant it, and see what grows. It's very strange, and totally ridiculous, and it has a /dance command, so give it a try. We could use the feedback.

Eventually it will be available on iOS, other devices, and probably PC/Mac/Linux. But for the beta, we're doing this Android thing (because it's easy to update on Android, unlike iOS!).